awew911

There is that one video of the guys in the Middle East crashing the GT3 and ending up on the roof... That's all I've seen.

Not sure how much weight the Cantrell bar adds, but it's likely not going to impact my DE Championship standings. Besides, the weight I just added going from PCCB to steel blows that roll bar weight differential out the window.

Mech33

awew911

I'm installing a BBi rollbar in my brother-in-law's '16 GT3 on Saturday, FWIW. Don't know which one he has.

Mr. Turtles

Just had a BBi installed and a friend did one himself as well in last week. From what I understand they went in very smoothly. Jerry at BBi will usally reply to any questions within a day.

CDinSing

I installed a BBI 2 years ago. It is solid and only required one cut of each side of the lower shelf tray to install. Most are safe enough for the type of impacts we are likely to see at a DE. A big safety advantage of a 6 point is ability to use a Hans. If I was going to use a three point only, which happens in student cars, I would definitely invest in a hybrid neck restraint system to support the extra weight of a helmet on my neck during an impact.

Mr. Turtles

So you just made a big investment in a very fast car. If you are not going to the track 3 ways and roll bar are fine. But if you are going to track the GT3 now is the time to think about safety, at least what you can control. A simple roll bar like those discussed here will help in a roll over but how much is never clear and I'm not really sure that's the main reason for putting it in. The main reason for me is to be able to use a 6 point harness and hans device that will definitely provide you much better protection in case of a more common impact type accident. Plus you will stop moving around in your seat and be a better/safer driver. There is no way you are not moving around with 3 way belts unless your in the beginner run groups and even then. The belts move out of the way for daily driving and you get use to them on the track pretty quick and eventually you would miss being locked into your seat so well.

Alan C.

I've always wondered how those small bolts mounted in single shear would hold up in a crash. Just thinking.

Whoopsy

Find one that reinforces the mounting points. As in, during an impact, the whole cage does't just punch right through the body in white through the mounting points.

RoW cars have reinforcement right from the factory for mounting cages, North America cars have a different body in white that don't have the reinforcements.

shizzle

^ good point. does anyone have experience with welding in the oem reinforcement plates and oem rollbar? I was looking at the fvd site, and am curious to hear people's install experience with the oem setup here in NA.

Golden Boy

BBiAutosport

Thank you everyone for mentioning our bar and here is a new Chalk 991.2 GT3 getting our color matched bar installed at Alekshop in Northern California.




Our bar is constructed out of 4130 chromoly for superior strength to weight ratio and the harnesses are mounted on the rear section to mimic the configuration of the 991 GT3 Cup bar. Here are some of the highlights of our bar.

Since our bars are built to order, we can always tailor the design to our client's needs. In this case, this client wanted eyelet bolts to snap on the hanrnesses, have extra reinforcement gussets with dimple dies, and remove one cross bar from the rear section.



We can achieve a perfect match with unique colors such as Ultra Violet and use a custom mixed PPG paint instead of powdercoating at an additional charge.







Supreme Power's Fashion Grey 991 GT3 with Color Matched Bar

























Colors such as Lava, we found a powdercoat match and can do it at no additonal charge. For all questions and inquiries, please email me at jerry@bbiautosport.com

Mr. Turtles

DRPM

porscheflat6

I am very happy with my BBi bar and highly recommend this bar!

Mr. Turtles